Ilse Grubrich-Simitis (22 February 1936 – 8 August 2024) was a German psychoanalyst. She worked in private practice and as a training analyst at the Frankfurt Psychoanalytical Institute.
Biography
Ilse Grubrich-Simitis was born on 22 February 1936. She married the lawyer and data-protection expert Spiros Simitis on 3 August 1963. Grubrich-Simitis died on 8 August 2024, at the age of 88.
Freud
Grubrich-Simitis worked for several decades as an academic researcher. The focus of her work was Sigmund Freud, on whom she published several substantial volumes, contributing to a sharpened appreciation of Freud's written work. Since the 1960s she worked for S. Fischer Verlag on the publisher's ten volume compilation of Freud's works and letters, initially as a publishing-editor and more recently with overall responsibility for the project. Recently she was also a co-editor of the publisher's Yearbook of Psychoanalysis.
Awards and honours
Output (selection)
- Sigmund Freud: Werkausgabe in zwei Bänden. Band 1: Elemente der Psychoanalyse. Band 2: Anwendungen der Psychoanalyse. Hrsg. und komm. von Anna Freud und Ilse Grubrich-Simitis. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-596-17216-0.
- Michelangelos Moses und Freuds „Wagstück“. Eine Collage. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-074400-4.
- Hundert Jahre „Traumdeutung“ von Sigmund Freud. Gemeinsam mit Mark Solms und Jean Starobinski. Fischer-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- Urbuch der Psychoanalyse : hundert Jahre Studien über Hysterie von Josef Breuer und Sigmund Freud. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-10-007903-5.
References
- "Ilse Grubrich-Simitis". Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon, Hamburg. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- "Psychoanalytikerinnen in Deutschland". Psychoanalytikerinnen. Biografisches Lexikon (in German). 14 April 1956. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- Der S. Fischer Verlag trauert um Ilse Grubrich-Simitis (in German)
- "Ilse Grubrich-Simitis .... Award Year: 1998". The Sigourney Award Trust, Seattle, WA. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- Steven Marcus (16 February 1997). "The Latest Word (book review)". The author has traveled far in the Freud archives, and finds that there's a long, long way to go. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 22 February 2018.